UFC president Dana White: “Nobody wants to fly to Hawaii and do a show more than me and my staff. Who wouldn’t want to go there? And the media? Everybody wants to go there. It’s a tough one to pencil.”

“They don’t have an arena. They have the outside bowl. I’m terrified to do anything outside with fighting. I used to spend a lot of time in Hawaii early on when we bought the company because there were a lot of good fights out there. It rains every 10 minutes. It’s raining, and then it’s beautiful out … it’s raining, then it’s beautiful out. It’s scary, man.”